Web browsers...which one do you use?

[Cobster]

Because of Internet Explorer getting some shit for its security weaknesses, Im now using Firefox which is amazing and very fast. (it's not perfect but not as bad as IE for security issues). Plus you get to add extensions to it, so you basically are customizing it to your needs.

Wondering who else uses firefox or anything else?

 

[canucklehead]

I use OmniWeb Pro, Camino, Safari, and Firefox. Safari and OmniWeb are both based on Apple's Web Core (KHTML) rendering engine. Both are fast both render by WC3 standards.
I love using Camino and Firefox. Firefox needed some configuring through the about:config file. if type "about:config" in the url location bar you pull up a list of configurable settings. There are some excellent instructions for this on the Mozilla.org web site in the forums. Both Camino and Firefox are based on the Gecko rendering engine and provide WC3 compliant standard rendering and fantastic CSS support. Plus both have consistantly updated extensions and themes.
But even Firefox has its security issues like anything on the WWW. Just keep it up to date and be careful. the best thing about Firefox is that it is not so integrated into the OS to make its security issues as dangerous to your system.

 

[Goober Mcfly]

Firefox. Tabbed browsing rules.

 

[Cardinal Fang]

Scorching Hamster.

It's still in development.

</Uses FireFox>

 

[TheNiteHwk]

I use

the one on my computer.

 

[mwong168]

Opera

I use Opera as my web browser. It is tab based and loads pages really fast or atleast appears fast cause it loads all the txt first and images later. I got tired of Internet Explorer crashing.

 

[RogerRabbit]

Re: I use

the one on my computer.

Good one!

 

[GIMME]

Mozilla Firefox. It has a tendency to handle some HTML tags a bit differently in comparison to IE and Netscape. Not a big issue, just messed up some testing I was trying to do.

Example is the href tag, when I tried to direct it to a local file on the C: drive, IE works fine, but Firefox confuses the C: inside the quotes on the href line.

But its a great tool. Stops those annoying pop-ups and bots from being downloaded. If people are scared of running another web browser, they should install SECRETMAKER. It also prevents pop-ups plus more.

 

[Cobster]

I might check out Opera as well as try that "about:config" in the Firefox URL.

Thanks Canuckle and you summed it up best in your last line about Firefox not being integrated as much as Explorer in the Operating System.

 

[WhOiSyOdAdDy?]

On one of my sites, here is the breakdown, so far for the month of January


MS Internet Explorer 66.6 %
Mozilla 25.7 %
Netscape 5.5 %
Safari 1.6 %
Unknown 0.2 %
Opera No 0 %
iCab No 0 %
WebTV browser 0 %

 

[pineappleguy]

I am trying Firefox now and I am whelmed. Not overwhelmed, not underwhelmed, just whelmed.

Seems to work ok, speed seems slightly slower than IE over dial-up but that may be subjective. Hotmail is all screwed up in Firefox - the toolbar doesn't display and text is sometimes not interepreted correctly. Sometimes text boxes appear different sizes than on IE (when posting a reply on TERB, for example)

Testing continues

 

[WhOiSyOdAdDy?]

Testing continues

It also does not like dhtml floating layers

I did some research and there is quite a few dhtml attributes / tags that will only work with IE

 

[glaeken]

A similar poll was submitted less than a month ago:

https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=71365

 

[xarir]

Safari at home. Our corp standard at work is IE so I don't have any choice there.

 

[tigerxxx]

I use mozilla since i got sick of constantly fixing problems with IE!

 

[canucklehead]

I love the page not being displayed right comments for Firefox.... if you check the page to see if it complies to www.w3.org consortium standards which are standards web design and coding is suppose to comply to. I can guarantee that those pages will not meet those standards. IE like every other standard like every other thing MS has created is written to comply only with there own proprietary standard and coding.
The page that only looks good in IE is poorly coded or improperly coded or more likely bloated with to much code. One thing i hate more then anything is bad coding and designers that bloat their code. The problem is the majority of the world is on dial up and do not have the time to download a 18 MB install to surf the web and email people. So they use IE.
RANT RANT RANT....... so.........

 

[WoodPeckr]

Haven't tried Firefox yet and very rarely if ever use IE because I'm still very happy with Opera and Opera's speed along with a few other things Opera offers.

 

[canucklehead]

Opera is a great browser on the Windows side and is written and compliant to standards.

 

[The Truman Show]

I'm on a Safari ...

 

[Cobster]

I tried Firefox and found everything to be quite slow. I was not happy so I've returned to IE.

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SLOW? wtf